Responding to Music

This week, I chose an application that I use so frequently, I forgot how truly useful it is in the music world. Voice Memos can help students respond to music in multiple ways. By recording lessons, a student can listen back and respond to their sound, their progress, and any adjustments they have made or need to make. This can help students evaluate their own performances, which relates to the 7th National Standard.

Choral warmup

Choral Warmup

PLN Performing Music

Music performances are an important part of studying music. As the seventh national standard states, it's necessary for students to be able to evaluate music and music performances. This skill can be hard to cultivate because of the modern day inconveniences of traveling to and affording live performances. Thankfully, technology has a way of helping out this problem. YouTube is an excellent source when it comes to finding music performances of any sort. One can often find at least one performance of a piece. This resource can help students listen to how a piece is supposed to go, visualize a successful performance set-up for a piece, or provide a comparison for a student to make in relation to his or her own performance. YouTube gives students more opportunities to watch performances, and while it is impossible to compare a live performance to an online one, it is sometimes the best option.

PLN- Creating Music

Finale was a life-saving resource for the completion of my GarageBand project. I was worried about finding a way to get the piano part into my song, as I possess no piano skills myself. I didn't know how to record it, so I had resorted to the idea of figuring out how to play it on the musical keyboard. When I found out that I could input the sheet music into Finale to export a MIDI file to use in GarageBand. Without this tool, my project would have been infinitely more difficult. Finale made it possible for me to use an instrument I wouldn't have been able to otherwise utilize.

Hi everyone! I made two ringtones :)
Here's the first!
And here's the second :)

PLN: Twitter

My PLN this week is Twitter. As I've gotten more used to my professional twitter, more and more people have started following me, and I them. I have the ability to follow twitters that provide me with useful music education information, and I can more easily keep up with the music education world around me. I can follow account of nearby organizations, important leaders in music education, and my fellow peers. Messages from all of these can be in the same place, which makes gathering information quick and easy. I can get event updates, musical suggestions, and new ideas that I can continue to gather and work with.

MIDI Digital Audio Shuffle

This article provided me with a plethora of information about digital audio and how it all works. I had no clue how to operate anything regarding MIDI, digital audio, or anything Garageband, so I learned a lot from the website. The most important thing I learned is that MIDI is not a form of audio, but rather a way for hardware and software to communicate. I think MIDI is efficient because of the tiny amounts of space it uses. Since it's not actual audio, it takes up much less space than an audio file would. Its ability to change keys, instruments, and notes with ease also makes it useful and efficient.

Hi everyone! I made an audition form that I could use in a choral or theatrical setting. You can fill it out if you'd like to!